The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife; in his analysis, the root cause for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes. During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on...
The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence a...
Mikhail A. Bakunin was a famous 19th century Russian anarchist. Bakunin is often known as the father of anarchist theory. Bakunin wrote God and the State in 1871, but like most of his work it is disjointed and unfinished.
Mikhail A. Bakunin was a famous 19th century Russian anarchist. Bakunin is often known as the father of anarchist theory. Bakunin wrote God and the St...
